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Monthly Archives: October 2012

If Blizzard learned one clear lesson from its last World of Warcraft expansion, it’s that you can’t go home again. Cataclysm is fueled by nostalgia, dragging us back to a world we loved when both we and the MMORPG genre were young, but the effect was like that of well-meaning friends dragging us off to…

Despite its name, the historic War of the Roses was a savage, nasty affair; a time of usurpers and betrayals, of massacres and sieges, and in the words of Shakespeare, it all took place in “a world grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.” What’s more, it also served as…